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Bitcoinomics

Network Data

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Token Layer

Regulatory

New Releases

Events and Podcasts

Miscellaneous

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Tollgate

bitcoin-dev

• BIP-110: Temporarily limit the size of data fields at the consensus level
• URSF
• Unbreaking Testnet4
• Wallet Migration Failure May Delete Unrelated Wallet Files In Bitcoin Core 30.0 and 30.1
• Bithoven: Formal Safety for Expressive Bitcoin Smart Contracts
• Mitigating The Impact Of The Quantum Freeze
• Falcon Post-Quantum Signature Scheme Proposal
• Hash-Based Signatures for Bitcoin’s Post-Quantum Future
• OP_CAT and Bitcoin’s Path to Quantum Resistance
• Silent Payments notifications via Nostr
• Hornet UTXO(1): A custom, constant-time, highly parallel UTXO database

lightning-dev

• A Mathematical Theory of Payment Channel Networks
• Ark as a Channel Factory: Compressed Liquidity Management for Improved Payment Feasibility
• LND: Forwarding History Privacy Management
• The Agents Are Here and They Want to Transact: Powering the AI Economy with Lightning
• Satring, the L402 directory
• L402 Apps

Optech

• Crypto Investors Face Violent Home Robberies
• Jade Security Disclosure
• Gloria Zhao’s twitter account taken over
• Vancouver police warn public after 2 victims lose $1.3M in crypto scams

Bitcoinomics

Network Data

• River Lightning Report
• Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Surpasses $1 Billion in Monthly Volume As Adoption Grows

Mining

• Bitcoin’s Security Budget Issue
• Heat from bitcoin mining system to warm Manitoba greenhouse

Token Layer

• Money Stuff: Stablecoin Narrow Banking
• Citrea Mainnet Is Live - Enabling Bitcoin to Be Used for Lending, Trading and Settlement
• Citrea Dashboard

Regulatory

• B.C. wins forfeiture of $1 million in cash, gold linked to failed cryptocurrency company QuadrigaCX
• Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s Bitcoin Obsession

New Releases

• Run BTCPay without a Bitcoin node
• RailsX, The First Lightning-Native DEX: Revolutionizing Arbitrage, Yields, and Global Trade on Bitcoin
• BitGo goes Lightning
• Bitcoin Echo announced
• Bitcoin on Metamask
• Stripe announcing X402 support
• Add X402 requests to any HTTP endpoint on AWS
• Voltage credit: A revolving line of credit that moves at the speed of Lightning

Events and Podcasts

• BOSS Challenge
• Agents at Work

Miscellaneous

• The Man Who Got Eric Trump Into American Bitcoin Before 70% Rout
• From 2,600% Gain to 86% Wipeout, Crypto’s Hottest Trade Crumpled
• Some Canadian investors hold tight to bitcoin despite price plunge
• Stablecoins, the new kid on the crypto block, may be killing Bitcoin
• Bitcoin treasury company Nakamoto to acquire BTC Inc and UTXO in $107 million all-stock deal
• Former ‘bitcoin mayor’ Eric Adams faces $3 million rugpull allegation after issuing NYC Token

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Today’s MC: Leo

bitcoin-dev

• Activate BIP 3
• CTV, CSFS, IKEY, PC: Soft-fork proposal
• Bitcoin Node Repository Consensus-Policy Separation
• Segregated OP_RETURN proposal
• Comparing the performance of ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 over the last decade
• Bitcoin’s Security Budget Issue
• Unbreaking Testnet4
• Wallet Migration Failure May Delete Unrelated Wallet Files In Bitcoin Core 30.0 and 30.1
• Bithoven: Formal Safety for Expressive Bitcoin Smart Contracts

lightning-dev

• A Mathematical Theory of Payment Channel Networks
• Ark as a Channel Factory: Compressed Liquidity Management for Improved Payment Feasibility
• Payment-failure times for random Lightning paths

Optech

• Jade Security Disclosure
• China Accuses US of Orchestrating $13 Billion Bitcoin Hack
• China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center issues technical analysis over US govt bitcoins seizure
• LuBian Mining Pool Hacked: Technical Traceability Analysis Report on the Theft of a Large Amount of Bitcoin
• Crypto Investors Face Violent Home Robberies
• Waterboarding, sexual assault, disguises: Details of terrifying $2M B.C. bitcoin hostage-taking revealed

Bitcoinomics

• From 2,600% Gain to 86% Wipeout, Crypto’s Hottest Trade Crumpled
• Bitcoin champion Strategy launches ‘dollar reserve’ amid crypto sell-off

Network Data

• Ordinals – Impact On Node Runners
• Comparing the performance of ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 over the last decade

Mining

• Stratum Analysis Panel

Token Layer

• Spark and Ark: A Look At Our Newest Bitcoin Layer Twos

Regulatory

• BTQ Technologies Launches Bitcoin Quantum Testnet
• A Call to Action for Canada’s Progressive Parties to Embrace Bitcoin
• B.C. wins forfeiture of $1 million in cash, gold linked to failed cryptocurrency company QuadrigaCX
• Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s Bitcoin Obsession
• DOJ investigation of Powell sparks backlash, support for Fed independence

New Releases

• BitGo goes Lightning
• Bitcoin Echo announced
• Bitcoin on Metamask

Events and Podcasts

• BOSS Challenge

Miscellaneous

• The Man Who Got Eric Trump Into American Bitcoin Before 70% Rout

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Today’s MC: Art

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bitcoin-dev

• Activate BIP 3
• CTV, CSFS, IKEY, PC: Soft-fork proposal
• Bitcoin Node Repository Consensus-Policy Separation
• Segregated OP_RETURN proposal
• Comparing the performance of ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 over the last decade

lightning-dev

• Payment-failure times for random Lightning paths

Optech

• China Accuses US of Orchestrating $13 Billion Bitcoin Hack
• China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center issues technical analysis over US govt bitcoins seizure
• LuBian Mining Pool Hacked: Technical Traceability Analysis Report on the Theft of a Large Amount of Bitcoin
• Waterboarding, sexual assault, disguises: Details of terrifying $2M B.C. bitcoin hostage-taking revealed
• An Independent Security Audit of Bitcoin Core

Bitcoinomics

• ‘Infinite money glitch’; meet arithmetic
• Bitcoin champion Strategy launches ‘dollar reserve’ amid crypto sell-off

Network Data

Mining

Token Layer

Regulatory

• A Call to Action for Canada’s Progressive Parties to Embrace Bitcoin

New Releases

• Cash App Unlocks Bitcoin for Everyday Payments, Adds Stablecoin Support
• Phoenix supports Taproot Channels
• Bitcoin Merchant Community
• Shakepay and Lightspark Partner to Bring Bitcoin-Powered Payments to Canada
• Coldcard Miniscript support
• Introducing Taproot Swaps: Putting the “Fun” Back into Refunds!
• Lightning Terminal 0.16 released

Events and Podcasts

• Stablecoins on Lightning: The Next Evolution of Bitcoin Payments
• Why Families Pay the Price for a Broken Monetary System—and How Bitcoin Changes That

Miscellaneous

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Today’s MC: Leo Weese

bitcoin-dev

• ECDSA in Bitcoin script
• Unstoppable JPGs In Private Keys
• Provable Cryptography for Bitcoin
• The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin
• Implications of OP_RETURN changes in upcoming Bitcoin Core version 30.0
• Reduced Data Temporary Softfork #2017
• Lopp: It’s Knot a Serious Project
• Optimal threshold signatures in Bitcoin
• Segregated OP_RETURN proposal
• Bitcoin Node Repository Consensus-Policy Separation
• Payjoin UX challenges

lightning-dev

• Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths

Optech

• Eclair: Preimage Extraction Exploit
• npm debug and chalk packages compromised
• Deep dive: inside the npm supply chain attack
• Coincards Security Incident
• North Korean hackers increasingly targeting wealthy crypto holders

Bitcoinomics

• The Rise Of Bitcoin As Money Continues: Becoming A Medium Of Exchange
• LQWD: Bitcoin Treasury 2.0 – Strategy Brief & Metrics Standard

Network Data

• Ordinals – Impact On Node Runners
• Comparing the performance of ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 over the last decade

Mining

• Stratum Analysis Panel

Token Layer

• Spark and Ark: A Look At Our Newest Bitcoin Layer Twos
• Ark and Spark: The Channel Factories We’ve Been Waiting For
• RGB Yellowpaper released
• Simplicity Launches on Liquid Mainnet
• Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar to Support a New Business Model for the AI-Driven Internet
• State of Rootstock 2025

Regulatory

• Did Canada Just Rob An OG Exchange Of $32,000,000?
• RCMP claim record cryptocurrency seizure of $56M in money laundering probe
• How fraudsters are using crypto ATMs to launder millions from Canadian scam victims
• B.C. crypto company lands record $176-million fine from FINTRAC
• B.C. woman who lost $670K in crypto scam fails to recover funds in Supreme Court
• Paypal to implement Bitcoin and Lightning payments

New Releases

• Tollgate
• Shakepay enables Lightning withdrawals
• Bitcoin for Signal
• 402 Money API Marketplace
• Minimalistic Electrum server implementation that indexes and serves only chainstate data
• Phoenix supports Taproot Channels

Events and Podcasts

• Heating a Public Pool with Bitcoin Mining: Live from the Learning Bitcoin Conference Vancouver
• Jarrett on CBC The Early Edition about BC firm fined by FINTRAC
• Voltage co-founder: Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is bringing crypto into daily life

Miscellaneous

• The Historical Analogy Behind the Bitcoin Whitepaper

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Today’s talk

• Evan Kaloudis: Zeus

bitcoin-dev

• ECDSA in Bitcoin script
• Unstoppable JPGs In Private Keys
• Provable Cryptography for Bitcoin
• Implications of OP_RETURN changes in upcoming Bitcoin Core version 30.0
• Reduced Data Temporary Softfork #2017
• Lopp: It’s Knot a Serious Project
• Optimal threshold signatures in Bitcoin

lightning-dev

• Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths

Optech

• Eclair: Preimage Extraction Exploit
• npm debug and chalk packages compromised
• Deep dive: inside the npm supply chain attack
• Coincards Security Incident
• North Korean hackers increasingly targeting wealthy crypto holders

Bitcoinomics

• The Rise Of Bitcoin As Money Continues: Becoming A Medium Of Exchange
• LQWD: Bitcoin Treasury 2.0 – Strategy Brief & Metrics Standard

Network Data

• Ordinals – Impact On Node Runners

Mining

• Stratum Analysis Panel

Token Layer

• Spark and Ark: A Look At Our Newest Bitcoin Layer Twos
• Ark and Spark: The Channel Factories We’ve Been Waiting For
• RGB Yellowpaper released
• Simplicity Launches on Liquid Mainnet
• Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar to Support a New Business Model for the AI-Driven Internet
• State of Rootstock 2025

Regulatory

• Did Canada Just Rob An OG Exchange Of $32,000,000?
• RCMP claim record cryptocurrency seizure of $56M in money laundering probe
• How fraudsters are using crypto ATMs to launder millions from Canadian scam victims
• B.C. crypto company lands record $176-million fine from FINTRAC
• B.C. woman who lost $670K in crypto scam fails to recover funds in Supreme Court
• Paypal to implement Bitcoin and Lightning payments

New Releases

• Tollgate
• Shakepay enables Lightning withdrawals
• Bitcoin for Signal
• 402 Money API Marketplace
• Minimalistic Electrum server implementation that indexes and serves only chainstate data

Events and Podcasts

• Heating a Public Pool with Bitcoin Mining: Live from the Learning Bitcoin Conference Vancouver
• Jarrett on CBC The Early Edition about BC firm fined by FINTRAC
• Voltage co-founder: Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is bringing crypto into daily life

Miscellaneous

• The Historical Analogy Behind the Bitcoin Whitepaper

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Today’s talk

Keith Mukai

• BIP 352
• Seedsigner

Onchain:

• Scaling:
  • Blocksize
  • Lamport Signatures
  • Cross-input signature aggregation (CISA)
• Softforks vs Hardforks
• Mempool filters: Full RBF, OP_Return, CPFP, Package Relay
• Syncing the Blockchain: Libbitcoin, Utreexo, Swift Sync, SPV

Mining:

• centralization, Selfish mining
• Algorithm, One Vote Per CPU

Lightning:

• Gossip: ZK Gossip, Gossip 2.0
• Bolt12
• Privacy: Blinded Paths

Economics:

• Release schedule
• Fee market

Token Layer:

• Where does Bitcoin Maximalism Come From?
• Colored coins: Mastercoin, Omni Layer, RGB, Taproot Assets
• onchain, offchain?
• A chain for everything or everything on one chain?

User experience:

• Unified QR Codes for Bitcoin
• Redefine Bitcoin’s Base Units

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• BTC VanCity Women’s Event August 16

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• Butcher’s Block & BBQ

Today’s talk

Mat Balez on Bringing ₿ to the World and ₿-only design

bitcoin-dev

• The Evolution of Payjoin: From Two-Party Protocol to Multiparty Framework
• Remove arbitrary limits on OP_Return (datacarrier) outputs
• OP_RETURN: Removing Bitcoin’s Guardrails
• Hourglass spending rules
• In 2010 OP_RETURN allowed anyone to spend anyone’s coins
• Swift Sync: Speeding up the Initial Block Download with hints
• Activate CTV and CSFS, a letter from the technical community
• Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset
• Quantum Safe Lamport Signatures

lightning-dev

• LND: gossip_timestamp_filter DoS
• Gossip rate limiting in LND

Optech

• Smallworlnd Nostr Liquidity place hacked

Bitcoinomics

• Liquidity requirements for Lightning payments: Ark servers and LSPs compared
• Research Update: A Geometric Approach for Optimal Channel Rebalancing
• Trustodial: An Ontological Dilemma

Network Data

• Block is making 10% yield on its Lightning node?
• Bitrefill is making 3.5% on their routing node
• BTC UTXO Oracle
• 15% of Coinbase’s Bitcoin transactions run on the Lightning Network
• Non-standard transactions in the Bitcoin Blockchain

Mining

• Rebar launches private mempol
• 350 anchors swept by miners

Token Layer

• RGB v0.12 consensus release

Regulatory

• Ken Sim’s Love of Bitcoin Makes Critics Nervous
• Games with Bitcoin payments now possible in App Store
• Vancouver company must pay $3.3 million for illegal crypto sales
• Meta in talks to deploy stablecoins three years after giving up on landmark crypto project
• Electrum announces plugins

New Releases

• Square enables Lightning payments
• Introducing the New Bull Bitcoin Platform
• Paying with Lightning at a convenience store in Switzerland
• BTCPay NBXplorer stuck
• Boltz Pro Launches Out of Beta: Stack Sats Non-Custodially by Swapping Bitcoin
• Bluewallet launches “hidden” wallet

Events and Podcasts

Miscellaneous

• Looking at some claims that quantum computers won’t work
• Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm
• Trump’s Quest for Crypto Riches Is a Constitutional Scandal Waiting to Happen

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lightning-dev

Nostr

• Ross joins Nostr
• Damus integrates Coinos wallet with one-click setup
• Jumble, a new client that focuses on allowing users to browse relay feeds and discover relays
• Damus introduces experimental “DAVE” feature to Notedeck, an AI for finding content on Nostr
• rust-nostr adds Blossom support
• fiatjaf releases promenade, a new FROST bunker
• calle releases “Following”, a website where users can create and share follow packs

Self custody

• Coinkite releases Coldcard co-signing feature
• Coinkite releases Key Teleport feature on Coldcard products
• Phoenix resumes operations in the US

Human rights

• How Bitcoin Is Used To Raise Funds In Myanmar For Earthquake Relief
• 7-Eleven South Korea to accept CBDC payments in national pilot program

Optech

• Cryptocurrency APT Intelligence: Unveiling Lazarus Group’s Intrusion Techniques
• Demystifying the North Korean Threat

Bitcoinomics

Network Data

• About 15.4% of $BTC payments through CoinGate use LN
• 800 million people have access to the Lightning Network + other industry insights
• Wallet of Satoshi processes 21 million payments

Mining

• Block Template Similarities between Mining Pools
• Mempool Stratum branches
• Pakistan turns to bitcoin miners, AI data centers to use surplus power

Token Layer

• A New Era for Stablecoins: Tether Is Coming to Bitcoin and Lightning ⚡💸
• Tether Blog: USDT is coming to Lightning

Regulatory

• The U.S. Government Says Money Isn’t Property—So It Can Take Yours

(Central Banking) Banking Crisis

• Libya devalues currency for first time in four years

New Releases

Events and Podcasts

Miscellaneous

Welcome Elenctics to tonight’s Socratic Seminar!

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Today’s MC: Leo

bitcoin-dev

• Starkware announces ColliderVM
• Mysterious old outputs being swept onchain

lightning-dev

• Papa swaps as an alternative to HTLCs
• Lightning Anchors collected directly by miners
• Pathfinding with LDK
• How MuSig2 Is Powering Lightning Liquidity with Loop
• Hybrid pathfinding optimization for the Lightning Network with Reinforcement Learning
• LND’s Deadline-Aware Budget Sweeper
• Liquidity squeezing from your node

Optech

• Cryptocurrency APT Intelligence: Unveiling Lazarus Group’s Intrusion Techniques
• Demystifying the North Korean Threat

Bitcoinomics

Network Data

• About 15.4% of $BTC payments through CoinGate use LN
• 800 million people have access to the Lightning Network
• Wallet of Satoshi processes 21 million payments

Mining

• Block Template Similarities between Mining Pools
• Mempool Stratum branches
• Pakistan turns to bitcoin miners, AI data centers to use surplus power

Token Layer

• A New Era for Stablecoins: Tether Is Coming to Bitcoin and Lightning ⚡💸
• Tether Blog: USDT is coming to Lightning

Regulatory

• The U.S. Government Says Money Isn’t Property—So It Can Take Yours

(Central Banking) Banking Crisis

New Releases

• Alan Bits v1
• Blink and BitDriver Team Up for Bitcoin Home Delivery in El Salvador
• Banco Bisa Introduces Bolivia’s First Regulated Crypto Custody Service Using Tether

Events and Podcasts

• Lightning Labs Newsletter: It all comes back to Bitcoin

Miscellaneous

• The goat: How Malawi’s store of value is rapidly destroying the country
• https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/how-silicon-valleys-corrupted-libertarianism
• Can Trump make bitcoin useful?